Money can build hospitals but not health, fund education but not wisdom, arrange marriage but not love, and create comfort yet erase adventure. Its power is real β but conditional, finite, and easily misunderstood.
Finance Bill 2026.
Out of 347 MPs, only 162 showed up to vote on one of the most consequential pieces of legislation affecting millions of Kenyans.
122 voted YES
40 voted NO
185 MPs were absent
If only 162 MPs can determine the future of the country's finances, then Kenyans have every right to ask:
Why are taxpayers funding 347 MPs when nearly half the House is missing during critical national decisions? π°πͺ